Subject: RE: 1.5 on a Mac SE/30
To: Noah Dunker <ndunker@jccc.net>
From: Hauke Fath <hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/21/2001 10:32:18
At 6:13 Uhr +0100 21.3.2001, Noah Dunker wrote:
>I'll wait to hear from others on this.  If no one has tried it,
>I will take one for the team.  I have a friend that runs one
>SE/30 with 1.4.x on it, and a batch of Quadras, and he says 1.5
>reportedly messed with the performance of Quadras, specifically
>SCSI, I believe, and hasn't upgraded yet.

Those problems are fixed in the 1.5.1 sources. Tell him there is a 1.5.1
ALPHA replacement kernel on

  http://www.tangro.de/~hf/macbsd/netbsd-kern-151-alpha.tar.gz

>My SE/30 got a lot of attention at DefCon last year.  Many
>people didn't believe it was all genuine Mac SE/30 parts inside,
>because "UNIX Doesn't run on stuff like that."  With a smirk I
>was able to confidently say "Haven't your heard the phrase 'Of
>Course it runs NetBSD!'"

Actually, as a Macintosh II class machine, the SE/30 was one of the first
Macs to run NetBSD. I should know, I started with NetBSD on a SE/30 late in
'94.

HTH,
	hauke

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